BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters on Saturday were battling a wildfire that broke out in the rugged mountains along Big Sur, forcing hundreds of residents on this precarious stretch of the California coast to evacuate and authorities to shut its main roadway.
NEW YORK (AP) — The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a community with strained police relations, but joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city," he once wrote.
DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The last of the escaped monkeys from the crash of a truck towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals was accounted for by late Saturday, a day after the pickup collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission failed for a second time on Saturday to reach the bipartisan consensus necessary to pass 10-year maps of state legislative districts based on 2020 census totals.
LONDON (AP) — The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.
The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine's government with a pro-Moscow administration.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Surveillance video shows a Black 17-year-old struggling with staff at a Wichita juvenile center last fall before he died after he was restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes.
NEW YORK (AP) — The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a community with strained police relations, but joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city," he once wrote.
Britain says Russia seeking to replace Ukraine government
DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The last of the escaped monkeys from the crash of a truck towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals was accounted for by late Saturday, a day after the pickup collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission failed for a second time on Saturday to reach the bipartisan consensus necessary to pass 10-year maps of state legislative districts based on 2020 census totals.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s new attorney general has altered the state’s position on a closely watched abortion case before the U.S. Supreme Court, with his office now saying it should be left to individual states to decide on restrictions.
LONDON (AP) — The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.
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The Lynchburg City School Board voted Friday to continue to mandate masks for students in school despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin's Executive Order Two, which he signed his first day in office.
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It looks like the organizers of the Blue Ridge Rock Festival are on their way to paying money owed to companies that have filed legal action.
A bill filed in the Virginia House of Delegates this week would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation except in cases where the pregnant woman is at risk of death or "substantial and irreversible" damage to her health.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin will appoint Carrie Roth to lead the Virginia Employment Commission, an embattled state agency that has struggled to process and pay almost two million claims for unemployment benefits in the COVID-19 pandemic.
A serial sexual assailant who accosted or attacked seven young women in the Fan District between 2015 and 2018 was sentenced to serve 87 years in prison Thursday. The punishment will be served consecutively to a 127-year prison term the Colonial Heights man received last summer for sexually assaulting three other women.
A man was arrested Tuesday in Lynchburg in connection with the death of his 2-month-old daughter, city police said.
A Rustburg man will face charges in connection with the death of his father after an attack Sunday, authorities said.
A judge denied bond Friday for a Lynchburg man accused of murder in connection with the homicide of a woman whose body was found last month in a creek more than two weeks after her disappearance.
APPOMATTOX — A judge denied bond Thursday for an Appomattox County man accused of murder in connection with a July 2021 shooting.
At its first meeting of 2022, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 18 appointed David Pugh, a 10-year veteran of the board, as its chair.
The baseball diamonds at Miller Park could soon see upgrades ahead of a busy summer of baseball, as Lynchburg City Council is scheduled to vote at its next meeting Jan. 25 on allotting $23,000 to match the same amount raised toward improving the fields.
The city's African American Cultural Committee recently gave a presentation at a Lynchburg City Council meeting offering recommendations on how to honor Black history in the city, but one of those ways will not be renaming 5th Street.
A former investigator with the Office of the State Inspector General who investigated the Virginia Parole Board and was fired after finding misconduct filed a federal lawsuit Friday against her former employer and two top officials of Gov. Ralph Northam's administration, alleging wrongful termination and defamation.
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